Eric Kugelberg
Eric Klas Henrik Kugelberg (* 1913 in Stockholm ; † 1983 ) was a Swedish neurophysiologist .
He studied medicine at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and worked in the field of experimental physiology in the laboratory of Ragnar Granit . He continued his work at the Karolinska Institutet and founded Clinical Neurophysiology as a separate clinical entity in Sweden .
As the first professor of clinical neurophysiology from 1948 to 1954, he later became chairman of the Department of Neurology, Karolinksa (Sweden). This enabled him to set up a modern neurological center at the Karolinska University Hospital.
Kugelberg is best known for the publication of his research results in the field of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). The juvenile form of the disease, the so-called SMA type III, is named after him and his colleague Lisa Welander as the Kugelberg-Welander syndrome .
literature
- E. Kugelberg, L. Welander: Heredofamilial juvenile muscular atrophy simulating muscular dystrophy . Archives of Neurology , Chicago, 1956, 75: 500.
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| SURNAME | Kugelberg, Eric |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kugelberg, Eric Klas Henrik (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish neurophysiologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1983 |